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Weak jobs ease hike fears as yields and AI spending stay high
Stocks rallied Friday after September payrolls rose just 29,000, cutting the odds of an October Fed hike. Still, the S&P 500 and Dow slipped for the week as the 10-year yield touched its highest since 2002, while Micron and Accenture showed AI demand holding up.
Daily closes, Sept. 28–Oct. 2, 2026. Source: AP, Yahoo Finance and Investing.com.
Reporting cutoff: U.S. market close, Friday, October 2, 2026. This is a dated snapshot, not a live market update.
Three forces shaping the week
A jobs miss changes the Fed math
Payrolls rose just 29,000 in September and earlier months were revised down by 60,000, cutting the odds of an October hike to about one in four.
Yields hit a 24-year high
The 10-year Treasury touched 5.34% on Oct. 1, its highest since 2002, before easing to about 5.28% by Friday.
AI spending keeps growing, and so does its financing
Micron and Accenture beat expectations, and Anthropic’s IPO filing shows Broadcom lending up to $42 billion to lease its chips.
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Google’s Next AI Data Center Could Be in Space
Google just put four of its AI chips into orbit to test whether solar-powered data centers in space could ever work. The early limits, like chips that can run only about 15 minutes at a time, show how far the idea still has to go.
“The bigger question isn’t whether we can put AI in space. It’s whether doing so makes economic sense.”
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